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MEAM Seminar: “Towards Manipulation of Large Objects by Robotic Edge Rolling with Quori, an Affordable Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. In this talk I will present the overall system—design, hardware, and software—for Quori, a novel, affordable, socially interactive humanoid robot platform for facilitating non-contact human-robot interaction(HRI) research. The design of the system is motivated by feedback sampled from the HRI […]

ODEI Spotlight: LGBTQ+ Pride Trivia Night

LGBTQ+ Pride Trivia Night Wednesday, June 30th | 8pm ET Register here: bit.ly/queertriviareg What was the first campus LGBTQ+ center in Pennsylvania? Yes, Penn! Join us from wherever you are for a fun night of interactive LGBTQ+ trivia with the LGBT Center and PennGALA to end pride month with a bang!  Alum, graduate and undergraduate students, […]

Doctoral Dissertation: “Development of Robot-based Cognitive and Motor Assessment Tools for Stroke and HIV Neurorehabilitation” (Kevin Bui)

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The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Michelle Johnson are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Kevin Bui. Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96436500457?pwd=OUVTSjNpNWp1Z0dGVnpyaVJUa0VHQT09 Meeting ID: 964 3650 0457 Passcode: 571655

MEAM Seminar: “Nanocellulose Fibers as Reinforcement to Improve Strength and Toughness in Structural Materials”

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Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are a naturally abundant polymer and have superior mechanical properties, high aspect ratios, are transparent and biodegradable, which make them attractive to be used in structural materials. As a reinforcing phase, CNFs have the potential to improve the mechanical properties of polymer materials. While there are active research efforts aimed at incorporating […]

ESE PhD Dissertation Defense: “Balancing Fit and Complexity in Learned Representations”

Thesis Title: Balancing Fit and Complexity in Learned Representations Abstract: This dissertation is about learning representations of functions while restricting complexity. In machine learning, maximizing the fit and minimizing the complexity are two conflicting objectives. Common approaches to this problem involve solving a regularized empirical minimization problem, with a complexity measure regularizer and a regularizing […]

MEAM MSE Thesis Defense: “Design and Characterization of an Origami-Inspired Robot that Swims via Jet Propulsion”

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Underwater swimmers present unique opportunities for using bodily reconfiguration for self-propulsion. Origami-inspired designs are low-cost, fast to fabricate, robust, and can be used to create compliant mechanisms useful in energy-efficient underwater locomotion. This thesis demonstrates an origami-inspired robot that can change its body shape to ingest and expel water, creating a jet that propels it […]

PSOC Webinar: Indrajit Tah & Chris Price

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Join Zoom Meeting: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99334915941?pwd=eDRXV1lITDlySXFyRHUyUzdmRldoQT09 Meeting ID: 993 3491 5941 Passcode: 189247 PSOC@Penn Summer Webinars 2021 Contact manu@seas.upenn.edu with any questions Indrajit Tah 12:00-12:30 PM Chris Price 12:30-1:00 PM

CBE PhD Dissertation Defense | “Structures Formed By Colloids at Curved Fluid Interfaces”

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Abstract:  Colloidal particles accumulate and organize at fluid interfaces via capillary interactions. We study pair interactions and structure formation around spherical particles with pinned contact lines. Particles attract to apparent contact and organize in near trapped structures that reflect the underlying curvature field. We have derived pair potentials to describe these interactions. The particles distort […]

MEAM Seminar: “A Methodology for Self-Replicating Robots from Ice”

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In the late 1940s, John von Neumann first introduced the concept of self-replication as a way of furthering cellular reproduction research. By the late ‘50s and ’60s this research diverges along two separate paths: cellular automata replication with a focus on biological systems and robotics/machine replication. Generally the work in robotic systems focuses on the […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “From Deployments of Elder Care Service Robots to the Design of Affordable Low-Complexity End-Effectors and Novel Manipulation Techniques”

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Older adults are forming a much larger percentage of the population leading to a strain in the healthcare sector. It is expected that the population aged 65 and over in the United States alone will double in the next 30 years, and similarly worldwide. Despite the abundance of facilities to accommodate the growing older adult […]